{"id":14776,"date":"2016-01-14T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14776"},"modified":"2016-01-14T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:06:07","slug":"alan-rickman-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14776","title":{"rendered":"Alan Rickman, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British actor Alan Rickman has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-35313604\">died at age 69<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen the Harry Potter films, and while I enjoyed him as Hans Gruber in <b>Die Hard<\/b> and the Metatron in <b>Dogma<\/b>, my favorite of his roles was <b>Galaxy Quest<\/b>, as a British stage actor trapped into pretending he was an alien by the beliefs of <i>other<\/i> aliens.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KJ3_u3lxr7c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alas, he shall not be avenged by Grabthar&#8217;s Hammer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British actor Alan Rickman has died at age 69. I&#8217;ve never seen the Harry Potter films, and while I enjoyed him as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and the Metatron in Dogma, my favorite of his roles was Galaxy Quest, as a British stage actor trapped into pretending he was an alien by the beliefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,12],"tags":[2043,1975,597,1970,1974],"class_list":["post-14776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-science-fiction","category-video","tag-alan-rickman","tag-movies","tag-obituary","tag-science-fiction","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14784,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776\/revisions\/14784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}